WOMAN'S MISSIONARY WORK

God bless the little ones, whose feet
Have still so long a way to go.
Defend them. Keep them clean and sweet
Grant them the best that life can know.

God bless the young, who face the years
So eagerly. Up from the dust.
Guide them to where the dawn appears,
And keep them faithful to their trust.

God bless the old, the weary-eyed,
Who stumble on with failing tread.
Grant them sweet peace at eventide,
And let the morn be bright ahead.

A Message from Mrs. Mills.

As Christian citizens we must try to qualify for an important election
year like 1936 will be. Being Chairman of our Committee on
Christian Citizenship, I am so eager for our women to make some
progress in their work as citizens. Some states require
registration before a certain date. Whatever your state may
require, urge your Christian women to do. Do not confine your
work to our Methodist women, but ask the Federated Missionary Societies
and every organization of Christian women to join in th{is effo} {paper torn}{paper torn}in{paper torn}{paper torn}
state requirements, begin in earnest to become intelligent
voters. Study the candidates and questions to be voted upon, and
when the day comes -- vote! We have had this privilege long
enough to begin to grow up, and act as adults. So few citizens
use this great power, and we women, so far, have been a disappointment
in the use of this privilege.

Dedicates His Life to International Amity.

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd has reached very high rank in his own
profession and has become one of the most eminent of the world's
scientific explorers. One of the most deeply moving statements of
modern times came from his lips recently on the occasion of a
testimonial dinner in his honor given in New York City by
representatives of American industrial, professional, scientific, and
cultural gro{u}ps. {H}e spoke of the dark months and sleepless
hours when he lay on the very edge of life in the dazzling snow fields
of the Antarctic. His chief diversion, he said, was to try to
secure an "unprejudiced view of the world and civilization." His
words deserve to be remembered by all citizens of America. They
were as follows:

"The great folly of all follies is the

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amazing attitude of civilized nations toward
each other. It seems a great madness. If this attitude is
not changed, I do not see how civilization as we know it will survive.

"The well-being of a nation depends upon the well-being of its neighbor
nations and fair and friendly trade relations with those nations.
Therefore, it appears to me that if a citizen desires reasonable
prosperity and well-being for his family and his fellow-citizens, he
should strive for friendly understanding among the family of
nations. That seems the loyal and efficient thing to do for his
country. I feel this so keenly that if I survive this ordeal I
shall devote what is left of my life largely to trying to help further
the friendship of my country with other nations of the world.

"I find a growing mass fear. Nations everywhere have been swept
by a nightmare, and in the resulting terror they are arming to the
teeth against the day when the nightmare will come true. With so
many opportunities for our new science to push out the boundaries of
the unknown and build a fairer and better life for human beings, we
are using our technological knowledge to prepare a cataclysm which will
bring to final ruin all we have achieved in the last three hundred
years."

The dedication of th{paper torn} rest of {paper torn}i{paper torn} lif{paper torn} {t}o {paper torn}e cause of international friendship is a challenge to Admiral Byrd's countrymen.

Overcoming a Handicap.

A Sunday-school teacher in a Korean church inquired, "Just three of
you?" as she opened the roll book of the fifth class of boys.
"What's the matter with the other boys?" for there were many vacant
seats.

A boy of fourteen years who stood twisting his cap in his hands ventured timidly, "One boy has gone to his school."

"School?" . . . "On Sunday?" I wondered, for it was not the usual
thing to attend school on that day. One boy in a blue coat who
sat in front of me proceeded to remark that Jin-tai had gone to
work. Here I began to check the attendance in the roll
book. "And what about Hak Kyoon?"

The restless boy answered immediately, "He was outside with us just a
few minutes ago . . . but he left saying . . . " Here he loo{k}ed
around a bit and then continued, "Because a woman teacher is teaching
us." At which information I unconsciously laughed, and they, too,
echoed my laughter.

Nevertheless I proceeded with the teaching of the Sunday-school lesson about Abraham, the pioneer. But in

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the meantime this ripple caused the simple words, "Because a woman
teacher . . ." grew greater and greater. That night on my bed I
thought again of those words. Why should a woman teacher seem so
inferior to a man that even a little boy has that kind of an
idea? Of course, I am not blaming that boy who simply expressed
simply what he had learned from his surroundings. Rather, I must
be grateful to him for what he taught me, for it has actually
stimulated me to do my best to help overcome such an old idea of
predominance of man over woman.

Miss Anna Bell Williams, who serves in connection with the Lambuth
Training School, Osaka, Japan, gives an interesting incident from the
life of a Japanese Christian:

At our special meetings for the deepening of our spiritual life held at
the beginning of this term, Hayashi Utako Sensei, who gives all her
time working for temperance and purity, was with us. She told how
God has marvelously led her through seventy-two years. As she was
four when the great Emperor Meiji ascended the throne, she knows well
Japan's marvelous history since her doors were opened to the
world. A splendid father helped her in many ways, and she was
always seeking truth so that when s{he} {paper torn}{paper torn}
primary reader, which
ev{i}dently bore the influence of Western books, that all things were
made by heaven, she stopped worshipping before the Buddhist altar in
her grandmother's home and began to worship the heavenly power which to
her was embodied in the sun. Later, in Tokyo, someone suggested
that she go to church, but she would have nothing to do with "that
foreign religion!" Then, because she wanted money to continue her
studies, she became the language teacher of a missionary's daughter and
finally attended church to see what it was like. Bishop Williams,
one of the pioneer missionaries, preached. Not all could she
understand, but she got three things -- that God had created all
things, that He is a loving Father, and tha{paper torn}
all men are His children and, therefore, brothers. The teaching
fitted into the longings of her heart, and she discovered that night
that Christianity is a world religion belonging to both east and
west. Her life since then has been full of sufferings borne and
noble deeds done, for the Master's sake. Her work for peace,
temperance, and purity has taken her several times to Europe and
America.

NEW CHURCH HOUR IS PROVING POPULAR.

The new hour of Sunday morning worship during August at the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Onancock,

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is proving po{paper torn}ular and largely attended. The
pastor, Rev. J. Shenton Lodge, is taking his sermons from his own,
original verses which have been published under the title of "The
Strollin' Scribe." A cordial invitation is extended to the public
to participate in the service next Sunday morning at ten-thirty o'clock
in the church auditorium.

-- The News

DOUBLE WEDDING.

Married August 8, 1936, at the Lawrenceville Methodist Parsonage, by
Dr. R. H. Bennett, Whitson LaGrand Benton, of Apex, N. C., to
Marguerite Jewel Cain, of Bine's Creek, N. C.; and Charlie F. Matthews,
of Holly Springs, N. C., to Lucy Elizabeth Cain, of Bine's Creek, N.
C. The brides are sister {sic}. The happy couples left in
their car for a Northern trip.

-- Times-Gazette.

THE LORD'S ACRE PLAN.

By Dr. Henry W. McLaughlin.

(Southern Planter.)

The Lord's Acre Plan might be more properly called "The Project Plan
for Financing the Country Church." The idea is to get each member
of the congregation to undertake some kind of project and give the
proceeds from it to the church. This may consist of the
cultivation of some crop on a portion of ground, or the raising of one
or more animals. A favorite project for the women has been with
poultry and poultry products. Some have given Sundays eggs.

The slogan of the congregation should be: "A Contribution from
Every Member Every Sunday, as an Act of Worship." Many country
churches fail because the burden of the support falls on two or three
families. These churches might have been saved if all of the
families of the congregation had helped. The Lord's Acre Plan is
a good one to enlist the unenlisted.

Three men tried to lift a log but could not budge it. When the
help of the members of the community was secured the log was raised
with ease.

The question has been asked, "Suppose a country church should wish to
adopt the Lord's Acre Plan. What steps should it take?" We
suggest the appointment of a committee -- composed preferably of young
adults, both men and women -- to study the question of how the church
may be supported in a community where there is not much ready
cash. This committee should write to its own denominational
headquarters for all available literature on the Lord's Acre and Pay in
Kind Plans. The committee may also find it helpful to visit one
or more churches in which the Lord's Acre Plan has been tried.
The people who have tested it out should be consulted in order to find
out the weak and strong points of the plan.

The committee, after thorough investigation, should report back to the officers

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or congregation. When it is decided to
put the plan into operation, it has been found wise to appoint a
congregation manager, and under him a captain for each commodity.
Cotton has been one of the most common crops adopted in the Cotton
Belt. In fact, the plan originated in the cotton area of South
Carolina, but it has been found just as practical with other
commodities.

An article appeared in the March issue of the Presbyterian Survey, by
Rev. Charles H. Phipps, showing how a country church located outside
the cotton area realized $1,000 last year. In this issue the
leading article on the same subject is by Rev. Dumond Clarke, director
of the religious department of the Farmers Federation, Asheville, North
Carolina. Sample copies of the magazine may be secured by writing
to the Department of the Country Church and Sunday School Extension,
Box 1176, Richmond, Virginia.

On February 23 I attended the fifteenth annual meeting of the Farmers
Federation in Asheville. About 2,000 people were in attendance
and the principal address was made by Hon. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States. Secretary Wallace, speaking
to the farmers of Western North Carolina, declared:

"Farmers in this section of the country are the poorest in the Nation,
from the standpoint of material wealth, but they are unusually rich in
what we term as 'life.' Profoundly moving religious activities
always find their base where the material wealth is small. The
faith of these people may have a profound effect in lifting the shadow
cast upon the country by the development of capitalism.

"The people of the cities and rich farm lands come to have a faith that
has replaced religion. They have built up false religious faiths
of their own, and these are bound to come to a sad end.

"At this point I would say if the Lord's Acre movement means a more
material outlook for its followers, it is a bad thing. But I do
not believe it means that. The Lord's Acre Plan tends to carry us
back to the pre-capitalistic days, and its followers have a sympathetic
attitude toward things.

"I believe the Lord is more lord to rain, sunshine and things produced
on the farm than to the factories and other products of capitalism."

I agree with Secretary Wallace that if by engaging in the Lord's Acre
Plan we are going to secularize religion, it will defeat its own aims,
but if by it we can spiritualize all of life and make sacred our daily
pursuits it will prove a blessed boon. Moved by the profit motive
we have degenerated into selfish groups. Faith in Capitalism,
Socialism, Fascism, and Communism is materialistic. On the one
hand, there is faith in Socialism on the part of the people who do not
possess wealth, clamoring

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for its possession by re-distribution.
On the other hand there is faith in Capitalism, insisting on possessing
the wealth of the Nation without regard to the rights of those who
have, by their labor, produced it. Both are motivated by a
materialistic philosophy.

Communism is a form of Socialism in which the people have sacrificed
their liberties for the selfish consideration of a new economic
security. Fascism or Nazism is Capitalism in which the people
have sacrificed their liberties for the sake of holding their
property. The basis of all these faiths is carnal rather than
spiritual.

It is heartening to have one as prominent in affairs of State as
Secretary Wallace declaring that the ideals of Jesus are
practical. These ideals teach that every group should recognize
the rights of every other. The Lord's Acre in accordance with the
teachings about Plan {sic} if rightly motivated and conducted
Stewardship in the Old and New Testaments, may not only prove a
practical plan for financing the country churches, but an instrument in
the hands of God for the preservation of a Christian democracy by
inspiring in the new generation the simple spiritual faith of the
religion.

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